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"Libby Mitford" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Slingshot emails have been playing up all week, sometimes refusing even
> to send.
>
> This morning I got a pile dating back as far as Tuesday.
>
> Anyone know what the issue is? Or experienced a similar problem?

Mine's been working fine and that's with up to half a MB on average.
Might depend on if it's your Hotmail address that's giving problems, in
which case has very little to do with Slingshot.

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E. Scrooge wrote:
> "Libby Mitford" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Slingshot emails have been playing up all week, sometimes refusing even
>> to send.
>>
>> This morning I got a pile dating back as far as Tuesday.
>>
>> Anyone know what the issue is? Or experienced a similar problem?
>
> Mine's been working fine and that's with up to half a MB on average.
> Might depend on if it's your Hotmail address that's giving problems, in
> which case has very little to do with Slingshot.

Seeing network issues from here for DNS and connectivity for Slingshot
overnight.

On 17 Nov 2006 10:55:09 -0800, "Libby Mitford"
<> wrote:
>Slingshot emails have been playing up all week, sometimes refusing even
>to send.
>
>This morning I got a pile dating back as far as Tuesday.
>
>Anyone know what the issue is? Or experienced a similar problem?

Libby Mitford wrote:
> Slingshot emails have been playing up all week, sometimes refusing even
> to send.
>
> This morning I got a pile dating back as far as Tuesday.
>
> Anyone know what the issue is? Or experienced a similar problem?
>
It's been a pain in the neck for a few days.

On Slingshot network status page:

"Mail Delays

We are currently experiencing email issues and some customers will
notice 24 - 48 hour delays in receiving email.

No emails have been lost and our engineers are currently working on the
affected mail servers.

We expect the problem to be resolved over the weekend and we will keep
you updated on our progress.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Expected to be resolved by: 20/11/2006 9:00:00 a.m."

Libby Mitford wrote:
> Slingshot emails have been playing up all week, sometimes refusing even
> to send.
>
> This morning I got a pile dating back as far as Tuesday.
>
> Anyone know what the issue is? Or experienced a similar problem?

Given all the email problems with local ISP's, I'm puzzled as to why
people don't just use Yahoo or Gmail. I've been using Yahoo Mail for
over 10 years without a hitch. Is it the quantity of email that people
receive that makes the free ones not an option? Or do people prefer an
email client such as Outlook Express over the web-based interfaces?

"Libby Mitford" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Slingshot emails have been playing up all week, sometimes refusing even
> to send.
>
> This morning I got a pile dating back as far as Tuesday.
>
> Anyone know what the issue is? Or experienced a similar problem?
>
>

I don't use it, however their ADSL meter seems to be stuffed for the last
few days, as it is stuck on an old number, so I don't know how much I have
actually used.

Libby Mitford wrote:
> My other half uses Yahoo mail as well as Slingshot but finds Yahoo
> regularly does not work properly. Slingshot has been much better but

Really? I don't recall any issues, apart from the few months I was with
Slingshot where I kept getting DNS Lookup errors going to the Yahoo
Mail website, but that was something to do with Slingshot. What sort of
issues does he have? Also has he tried the new Beta version of Yahoo
Mail? It's very nice, looks and feels like a desktop application.

On 2006-11-17, Chris Lim <> wrote:
> Libby Mitford wrote:
>> Slingshot emails have been playing up all week, sometimes refusing even
>> to send.
>>
>> This morning I got a pile dating back as far as Tuesday.
>>
>> Anyone know what the issue is? Or experienced a similar problem?
>
> Given all the email problems with local ISP's, I'm puzzled as to why
> people don't just use Yahoo or Gmail. I've been using Yahoo Mail for
> over 10 years without a hitch. Is it the quantity of email that people
> receive that makes the free ones not an option? Or do people prefer an
> email client such as Outlook Express over the web-based interfaces?

you can use regular cliens with yahoo or google. I do.
(i got in on a free deal for POP3 access to yahoo's mail server - I think
they may have made that a pay service now.
but google still has free pop3 mail.

There's even a thing called hotpooer that'll connect a fetch mail from hotmail.

"Chris Lim" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Libby Mitford wrote:
>> Slingshot emails have been playing up all week, sometimes refusing even
>> to send.
>>
>> This morning I got a pile dating back as far as Tuesday.
>>
>> Anyone know what the issue is? Or experienced a similar problem?
>
> Given all the email problems with local ISP's, I'm puzzled as to why
> people don't just use Yahoo or Gmail. I've been using Yahoo Mail for
> over 10 years without a hitch. Is it the quantity of email that people
> receive that makes the free ones not an option? Or do people prefer an
> email client such as Outlook Express over the web-based interfaces?
>

Best to have your own domain based one, which is portable and you can keep
forever.. I have had problems with yahoo and gmail, just not receiving
emails through the accounts/

jasen wrote:
> you can use regular cliens with yahoo or google. I do.
> (i got in on a free deal for POP3 access to yahoo's mail server - I think
> they may have made that a pay service now.
> but google still has free pop3 mail.

Oh. In that case why do people use their ISP for email? I would rather
trust the likes of Yahoo or Google than any of the local bunch, in
terms of providing a reliable and ongoing service. And I actually
prefer them storing my emails rather than downloading them onto my PC
(I'm pretty lazy and don't back things up regularly!).

"Chris Lim" <> wrote in message
news:...
> jasen wrote:
>> you can use regular cliens with yahoo or google. I do.
>> (i got in on a free deal for POP3 access to yahoo's mail server - I think
>> they may have made that a pay service now.
>> but google still has free pop3 mail.
>
> Oh. In that case why do people use their ISP for email? I would rather
> trust the likes of Yahoo or Google than any of the local bunch, in
> terms of providing a reliable and ongoing service. And I actually
> prefer them storing my emails rather than downloading them onto my PC
> (I'm pretty lazy and don't back things up regularly!).
>

But what if their harddrives become corrupted, and they can't restore your
email data. This happened to me once with a free email provider. Because it
is free they don't have any responsibility, as it is always the users
responsibility to make sure that you have made backups.

Vista wrote:
> But what if their harddrives become corrupted, and they can't restore your
> email data. This happened to me once with a free email provider. Because it
> is free they don't have any responsibility, as it is always the users
> responsibility to make sure that you have made backups.

True, and they could go bankrupt or shut up shop at any time, but I
would put my trust into Yahoo over any local ISP any day. Same with
their backup strategy. I would be more surprised if Yahoo lost users
email than if, say, Xtra, iHug, Slingshot, or Orcon did. In recent
years there have been several incidents where a local ISP has had
problems with email (mainly delays or spam, nothing catastrophic, but
still....). In the 10+ years I've been with Yahoo, not once have I had
any problems.

Vista wrote:
> But what if their harddrives become corrupted, and they can't restore your
> email data. This happened to me once with a free email provider. Because it
> is free they don't have any responsibility, as it is always the users
> responsibility to make sure that you have made backups.

Even all the pay providers take no responcibility.

I figure having copies in the imap cache of all my computers is backup
enough of the recent mails, old ones I want to keep I copy down onto
local folders on all the computers

"Richard" <> wrote in message
news:4560e951$...
> Vista wrote:
>
>> But what if their harddrives become corrupted, and they can't restore
>> your email data. This happened to me once with a free email provider.
>> Because it is free they don't have any responsibility, as it is always
>> the users responsibility to make sure that you have made backups.
>
> Even all the pay providers take no responcibility.
>
> I figure having copies in the imap cache of all my computers is backup
> enough of the recent mails, old ones I want to keep I copy down onto local
> folders on all the computers

True, but they do have an incentive to not piss off their customers if they
lose all the emails, they then don't get paid.

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